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<p>[QUOTE="Debora, post: 4471122, member: 1476"]My thought was the artist cribbed the background from a Classical work or invented it. The scale is too large to be domestic. But you can do a bit of internet research to see how sea captains' wives were typically portrayed in portraits.</p><p><br /></p><p>Debora[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Debora, post: 4471122, member: 1476"]My thought was the artist cribbed the background from a Classical work or invented it. The scale is too large to be domestic. But you can do a bit of internet research to see how sea captains' wives were typically portrayed in portraits. Debora[/QUOTE]
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